Strike!

[Magnus McGinty]

 

[belboid]

I see there is now an official Mick Lynch T-shirt. Shame it’s a bit…. shit

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Is right

Oh christ that bloke was a proper cunt. As he was shouting I was thinking to myself 'I hope those people you congratulate yourself for employing are unionised and piss on your cornflakes'

 

[BristolEcho]

Oh christ that bloke was a proper cunt. As he was shouting I was thinking to myself 'I hope those people you congratulate yourself for employing are unionised and piss on your cornflakes'

Owner of company against unions shocker.

 

[hitmouse]

I see there is now an official Mick Lynch T-shirt. Shame it’s a bit…. shit

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I mean, I wouldn't wear it myself, but I quite like the 80s electropop vibe it has going?
I'm also enjoying the TMNT t-shirts Manchester RMT have made:

 

[magneze]

Perhaps we need to be talking about a "Profit Price Spiral"?

Grace Blakeley agrees: Don’t Blame Workers for Price Rises – Blame the Profiteers

 

[BristolEcho]

Tomorrow in Bristol.

 

[hitmouse]

Pretty proud of my branch's turnout to support the RMT today, had four people from the branch committee come down but also had three just regular workers/rank and file union members who I'd never even met before turning up to show solidarity.

 

[flypanam]

 

[flypanam]

London today. Fair turnout maybe 500.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

 

[hitmouse]

Outsourced health workers striking in Blackpool and Blackburn next week:

 

[BristolEcho]

Pretty proud of my branch's turnout to support the RMT today, had four people from the branch committee come down but also had three just regular workers/rank and file union members who I'd never even met before turning up to show solidarity.

Good turn out in Bristol too.

 

[Dystopiary]

The Lord Chief Justice has been accused of trying to intimidate striking barristers.

Paywall busted (from the Times 23/06/22.

In an open letter to Lord Burnett of Maldon, more than 70 of the country’s most experienced criminal lawyers objected to a message sent on Wednesday by the lord chief justice to crown court judges.
Burnett told the judges that striking barristers should be referred to regulators for possible misconduct charges if they refused to attend court because of action organised by the Criminal Bar Association.

Criminal barristers voted last weekend to launch a complete boycott on appearing in new cases for three days a week over the next month.
In his edict, Burnett also raised the prospect of striking barristers being financially penalised.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I hadn’t seen this - worth noting that 10% for a night / weekend enhancement is more like 6% once you take off statutory deductions. It’s a disgraceful reduction in enhancements for shifts they have no choice but to do - therefore it’s a massive pay cut

We’ve got a seriously fucked up economy when time and a half or double time at weekends and evenings has gone almost extinct to be replaced by gig work and zero hours, despite ever more of these low level wage places open let alone skilled employment jobs

 

[The39thStep]

 

[ska invita]

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sung to the tune of

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Pickman's model]

Yeh but the labour party are not a serious party of government

 

[Smokeandsteam]

 

[ska invita]

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probably not a picket line that tbf - an NHS demo I think
not trying to be a pedant but i doubt Lammy has ever been on a picket line - my mental note on him is he's right wing economically
ETA: I take that back, someone has found a picture of him on a picket! Anyway Lammy is long on the list.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Smokeandsteam]

probably not a picket line that tbf - an NHS demo I think
not trying to be a pedant but i doubt Lammy has ever been on a picket line - my mental note on him is he's right wing economically
ETA: I take that back, someone has found a picture of him on a picket! Anyway Lammy is long on the list.

His interview on Sunday Morning today was utterly despicable. Condemning BA workers demands to restore a 10% pay cut during the pandemic as ‘excessive’, no support for the RMT and a rewriting of history in respect of the origins of the name of the Labour Party.

He’s long been a shape shifting careerist - adopting positions for personal advancement - but his condemnation of organised labour today was stomach turning

 

[Puddy_Tat]

from teh tweeter





presumably not the same caroline lucas who went scabbing during the council workers' strike in brighton a few years back...

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I liked Demsey’s comment that he wouldn’t be taking lectures on modernisation from a Lord who doesn’t know end of a shovel from another. I liked the Lord’s pissy reaction even more.

 

[Dystopiary]

Diane Abbott calls out Lammy's hypocrisy. Like Smokeandsteam says, a careerist.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[Dystopiary]

"The Labour Party is the political wing of the labour movement"

Er.....

 

[Pickman's model]

from teh tweeter

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presumably not the same caroline lucas who went scabbing during the council workers' strike in brighton a few years back...

She has been careful to specify railway workers here

 

[Artaxerxes]

Not terribly liberal of her


How big do these people think the army actually is?